Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The paper “Scaling laws for Rayleigh-Bénard convection between Navier-slip boundaries“, co-authored by Fabian Bleitner (Hamburg) and Camilla Nobili, has been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (link here). Fabian is a PhD student of Camilla, based at the University of Hamburg (link here). The paper considers the two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection problem between Navier-slip fixed-temperature […]

On Friday 25 October, Anne Skeldon gave an online seminar to the Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, as part of their Cybernetics Seminar series. In the talk she gave an introduction to mathematical modelling of the sleep-wake cycle, discussing the nonsmooth coupled oscillator […]

The article “Why Trump’s messaging is becoming more extreme, a mathematician explains“, authored by Dorje Brody, has been published in The Conversation (link here). Dorje explains that one can apply the mathematics of communication, which explains our cognitive response to digesting information, to infer the impact of political messages. In particular, one can study how different messages on […]

Congratulations to Fabio Marino for passing his PhD viva today (Wednesday 16 October)! Fabio‘s PhD is part of the dual doctorate programme with the University of Milano-Bicocca, and this viva is the Surrey part of the PhD examination, with the Milano-Bicocca part to be completed. The title of his thesis is “Probing Bad Theories With The […]

Congratulations to Chettha Saelim for passing his PhD Confirmation viva! It was held on Monday 14 October, and his examiners were Andrea Prinsloo and Alessandro Torrielli. The title of his report is “Deformations of Black Holes from an L-infinity Algebra Perspective”. The project is to encode deformation data of a near horizon geometry of an […]

Denys Bondar, an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, is visiting Maths@Surrey this week (12-19 October) for research interaction with Cesare Tronci. His visit is funded by Cesare‘s Leverhulme grant. They are working together on the properties of equilibrium configurations in mixed quantum-classical dynamics. The screenshot […]